Archive for the 'messengers / chat' Category

Stop Yahoo! Messenger from starting up with Windows

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed to receive the latest updates. Thanks for visiting!Yahoo! Messenger is a popular Instant Messenger for Yahoo! users. Most of you download it, and use it only occasionally. Yahoo! Messenger, by default, starts up when Windows starts. If you don’t like Yahoo Messenger [...]

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October 29th, 2007 | Posted in messengers / chat | 21 Comments

Yahoo!’s Web Messenger

Yahoo! is now offering a browser-based version of it’s popular instant messaging client, Yahoo! Messenger.
You can access it at Web.im or webmessenger.yahoo.com
It’s built on Flash, and it’s slick. It’s logs all your conversations as ‘message history’, and each conversation comes up as a new tab in the window-like interface.
All message logs are searchable from the [...]

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May 3rd, 2007 | Posted in messengers / chat | 7 Comments

Pidgin 2.0 Beta is out: I’m lovin’ it

Pidgin 2.0 Beta (formerly GAIM) is now released.

Pidgin is a very powerful instant messenger that supports multiple protocols including
AIM / ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN Messenger, Jabber and also IRC.
You’ve got plugins for additional functionality and also loads of themes, to spice up this open source application. It supports multiple platforms.
Buddy Pounces is a unique feature in [...]

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May 1st, 2007 | Posted in messengers / chat, software | 1 Comment